... were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say, that the land was the fairest in the world.

Frances Trollope (1780-1863), British author. Domestic Manners of the Americans, ch. 34 (1832).
Trollope had been travelling through the United States; here, she referred to her departure from New York City as she embarked on her trip home to England.